A brand new hearsay surrounding Ubisoft’s remake of Murderer’s Creed 4: Black Flag has grow to be virtually a month-to-month prevalence at this level, and this time round, there’s a brand new report that signifies that the remake includes fairly a couple of adjustments being made to the unique. In response to a video by Jeux Vidéo Journal (through WCCFTech), the remake of Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag will apparently solely take away the modern-day components of its story. Somewhat, the whole thing of the remake’s runtime will revolve round protagonist Edward Kenway and the pirate setting.
Together with this, the remake will even reportedly characteristic extra content material within the type of new quests and different actions. There will even be a couple of modernisation touches being made to the title, together with the elimination of loading screens when transferring out of your ship to land, in addition to the addition of content material that was initially faraway from the sport again when it first got here out in 2013. The report additionally signifies that the remake is slated for launch within the first half of 2026, with March being a outstanding candidate.
As has usually been the case with experiences and rumours like this, it’s value taking them with a grain of salt, since Ubisoft is but to even formally acknowledge that it’s engaged on a remake of Murderer’s Creed 4: Black Flag. Nevertheless, experiences of a remake being in growth have been flying round for fairly a while now, going way back to 2023. In response to these experiences, the remake is predicted to be a ground-up remake being developed utilizing a present model of Ubisoft’s in-house Anvil engine, quite than merely being a remaster.
More moderen experiences of the rumoured remake began coming round due to artists from officially-licensed merchandise maker Play Arts off-handedly mentioning that “one thing is happening with Edward” throughout a livestream.
“Murderer’s Creed followers on the market, you ought to be conscious that there’s something happening with Edward [Keyway]”, stated one host when requested about why they weren’t showcasing a determine based mostly on Black Flag protagonist Edward Kenway. The artist was interrupted by one other one saying “wait has that been introduced?”
“I believe so, I’m fairly certain I noticed rumors about it. No, I positively noticed at article about it”, responded the primary artist. Afterward, the primary artist additionally stated, “So there’s going to be one thing happening with Edward, and our PVC 1/eighth scale statue will mirror that accordingly.”
These rumours had been additional strengthened by a remark by Edward Kenway’s voice actor, Matt Ryan, who was caught on video mentioning to a fan that they could get the possibility to re-experience Black Flag quickly. Whereas signing an autograph, Ryan had requested the fan if that they had crushed Black Flag, to which the fan replied by saying “yeah, some time in the past.” This prompted Ryan to reply by saying that they “might must beat it once more.”
Again in July, some adjustments to the Murderer’s Creed 4: Black Flag database entry on Steam had been caught, courtesy of SteamDB, with new options seemingly added to the title.
